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Butδὲwhen he cameἐλθὼνtoεἰςhimself,ἑαυτὸνhe said,ἔφη‘How manyΠόσοιof my father’sτοῦ πατρός μουhired workersμίσθιοιhave more than enoughπερισσεύονταιbread,ἄρτωνbutδὲIἐγὼam perishingἀπόλλυμαιhereὧδεwith hunger!λιμῷ
Luke 15:17
Study it in the app“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough bread, but I am perishing here with hunger!”
The father welcomes the son who returned and throws a feastForgiveness
With the Greek beneath
Luke 15:17, word by word
- when he cameἐλθὼνelthōn
come
To move to where someone is or to a place, and be present there.
Where else “elthōn” appears- he saidἔφηephē
say
Say.
Where else “ephē” appears- ‘How manyΠόσοιPosoi
how much, how many
How much, how great; how many.
Where else “Posoi” appears- of my father’sπατρόςpatros
parents
A family's father; sometimes father and mother.
Where else “patros” appears- hired workersμίσθιοιmisthioi
hired worker
Hired worker, day laborer.
Where else “misthioi” appears- have more than enoughπερισσεύονταιperisseuontai
be left over
For some to remain after everyone has had enough.
Where else “perisseuontai” appears- breadἄρτωνartōn
bread
A piece of baked bread made from flour: the basic food.
Where else “artōn” appears- am perishingἀπόλλυμαιapollymai
perish
To die, or be cut off from God forever.
Where else “apollymai” appears- with hungerλιμῷlimōi
hunger
A person's need for food.
Where else “limōi” appears
The context
16And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.
17 · This verse (above)
18I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
To study Luke 15 in a group
1. What it says
What does the father do when he sees the younger son returning from far away, and what does the older son do when he finds out? (vv. 20-30)
2. What it means
The three parables are about something lost that is found. What do the shepherd, the woman and the father have in common? (vv. 4-10, 20-24)
3. How I live it
The older son was angry about the feast, and his father pleaded with him to come in. With whom do you find it hard to rejoice today? (vv. 28-32)